A Study on Effect Path of Land Factors on Permanent Rural-Urban Migration Willingness of Rural Household Labor

The purpose of the paper is to provide realistic references for rural land reform to promote the process of urbanization in China through analyzing the effect and path of land factors on willingness of permanent rural-urban migration of household labor. The paper applied the Structural Equation Model to analyze the effect path of land factors on rural household labor's willingness of permanent rural-urban migration based on survey of 602 rural households from Anhui and Hubei provinces. The results show that rural land had effects on permanent rural-urban migration willingness of rural household labor mainly through the land factors that reflecting the strength social security function of rural land. Meantime, the behavior of rural labor rural-urban migration and land transfer act were the important media of effect of land factors on permanent rural-urban migration willingness of rural household labor. It was concluded that: the process of thorough migration could be promoted by the pattern of "migration first and then settle down permanently"; through improving the rural land transformation system, accelerating the establishment of sound social security system in rural areas, the worry of permanent settlement in urban of rural labor could be eliminated.